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by Dan Mangan

Category: Flora & FungiAdded December 20, 200430 views

Flowering Plants

Keywords: flowers, tithonia, orange, backlight

A backlit study of the Mexican sunflower, or tithonia, which possesses the most vibrant orange I've seen in a bloom. This is a composite, formed in PS of the original (a hemisphere) pasted onto an inverted copy of itself, thus forming a sphere. Background created in PS.
Image Reference: Tithonia Backlit WholeImage Format: Digital Capture - 3 to 5MPImage Crop: Less than 75% of originalDigital Enhancement: Digital Composite/IllustrationModel Release: NAProperty Release: NACaptive: NA